Good idea. It's probably a niche community, but when people discover it, they will probably download at least a few gigabytes of the early years material.
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Yes, frequently. They also like to keep stuff off of Wikipedia with arbitrary "notability" rules. There used to be a great community of Wikipedia critics, but I've lost all the links.
Entirely. Very much the same here. Anything on the canonical list is usually of interest as well: https://www.deathmetal.org/metal
That first Carcass album really is amazing. I am rather fond of older Immortal, which might also be to your taste.
Interesting. I mostly listen to classical, but still tune in for the solid death metal material. I do not consider it rock, more like the bastard spawn of UK hardcore, prog, and NWOBHM.
There's a great crossover area of death-doom and doom-death. Stuff like Skepticism, Thergothon, Asphyx, Incantation, Cianide, and Derketa come to mind.
Regret is a powerful teacher!
Bet it happens for political reasons. First rule of suppressing revolutions is to cut communications.
I feel the same way about music, which is why I am an obsessive buyer of physical music.
The whole "Christian nation" thing makes me nervous. A lot of the founding fathers were deists or agnostics.
Sure, and both were exposed to PARC and early 80s experiments in GUIs. There was a certain amount of convergence. But it is interesting that Windows was in motion first.